Improvement in bedsteads



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Improvement in Bed=steafi`s\\`VV NO- 130,555. Patnted Aug '20,

Inventum fm1 n gimme@ Ulvrrnn STATES DENNIS OLEARY, OF HUBBARD, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN BESTEADS.

Specitication forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,655, (lated August 20, 187:2.A

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Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention Arelates to a new simple construction of wrought-iron bedsteads, whose parts are united together in such manner that the bed-bottom can be set up or down at will.

A A in the drawing are the round wrought` iron bed-posts. B B are sleeves embracing` the same, and provided with tubular horizontal projections a a, and with angular horizontal projections b b. The side rails (l O of the bedstead have their ends placed into the angular projections b b, being shaped to corre spond,as shown in Figs; l and 2. The crossbars D D at the ends ofthe bedstead are,with their ends, placed into the tubes a. Screws Z cl serve to secure the rails C and bars D in the sockets a and b,and permit of the greater or less extension of such rails or bars to allow the enlargement of the bedstead in either direction. The sleeves B B can be adj usted up and down on the posts A Jr'or the purpose of raising,` or lowering the bed-bottom, and can be fastened by set-screws e e. The upper ends ot' the posts A screw into tubes ff, which are perforated at the sides to receive the ends of upper cross-bars E, as shown. Top ornaments g g are screwed into the tubes j' from above.

F is a bent rod, which serves as a brace at the.

end of the bedstead. The ends ot' this rod rest in notches ot' the posts A. At the middle the rod F is, by a screw, h, connected with a tube, i, which embraces the cross-bar E at the middle, as shown. Center ornaments Gr Gr are, by a screw7 j, also fastened to the top of the tube Having` thus described my invention, claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The sleeve B, provided with the socket projections a. and b and applied vertically adjustable to the bedstead-post A, as set forth.

2. The tubes j' combined with the posts A and upper crossbars E, substantially as herein shown and described. Y

3. The combination ot the bent rod F, tube t', and cross-bar E with the posts A, as set forth.

DENNIS OLEABY.

Vitncsses:

RUFUs KIRK, J Aeon H. TURNER. 

